Brzezinski and Scarborough on Friday alleged that staffers in Trump’s White House threatened them with a negative story in The National Enquirer unless they apologized to the president.

“This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked,” they said in a Washington Post op-ed.

“We ignored their desperate pleas,” they added, noting “three people at the top of the administration” issued the warning.

Trump on Thursday attacked Brzezinski and Scarborough in a pair of tweets that have since drawn bipartisan condemnation.